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Audio Interview with Gary Jennings |
| Gary Jennings is the author of several short stories, magazine articles, many short novels, a novel Aztec and his most recent novel at the time, Spangle. For both Aztec and Spangle, Jennings went to great lengths to research his topics. For Aztec, he spent 12 years in Mexico and even learned the Aztec language, Nauatl. For Spangle, a novel about the circus, Jennings spent one year traveling with circuses of the United States, Europe and Russia. He also reflects on his childhood, growing up in Lexington, Virginia, becoming a typing apprentice and working during the Korean War as a war correspondent. To hear more about the life and times of Gary Jennings, click on the link below. Listen
to the Gary Jennings interview with Don Swaim, November 17, 1987 |
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For over a decade, many of the best writers of the English language found their way onto Don Swaim's daily two-minute CBS Radio show, Book Beat. His New York-based program was derived from longer interviews, sometimes 40-minutes in length. Found exclusively here, Wired for Books proudly webcasts these conversations in their entirety using RealAudio. © Ohio University |
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